DENVER – Kobe Bryant said he’s still planning to play for Team USA in this summer’s World Championships – if his health permits.

LeBron James and Dwyane Wade announced recently they’re leaning toward skipping the World Championships in Turkey. Both will be free agents this summer and have cited business and family commitments as reasons why they might not play.

Chris Bosh(notes) will miss at least a week after having surgery to
repair his broken nose, and around the NBA everyone is asking the same
question: With only four games remaining and his team tenuously clinging
to the Eastern Conference’s eighth and final playoff seed, has Bosh
already played his final game for the Toronto Raptors?

When the Orlando Magic came to Washington last month, Mike Miller spent
some time with former Memphis teammate and fellow Florida alum Jason
Williams. Miller said Williams told him how much fun it was playing for a
winner and offered some encouraging words.

First thing last: None of the above mentioned grounds will be Johnson’s
decisive motive for rejecting the Knicks, should they even proposition
him. Except, perhaps, for LeBron and Dwayne Wade, his bottom line is no
different than every other player’s bottom line.